[datatable-help] fread for flat files

[Michael Smith]

Probably you could do this from the Linux command line using `sed`, i.e.
to replace several spaces with a comma.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sed+replace+space+with+comma

If you're on Windows, you probably can do the same using Cygwin.

M


On 04/19/2014 12:37 AM, Mark Danese wrote:
> Is it possible to pass a vector of column widths to have fread read in a
> flat file?  I saw that someone suggested using csvkit to add commas and
> then use data table, but that is beyond my skill set.
> 
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